Top street artists are set to transform a new skate park during a one-day contest.

The upgraded wheeled sports park on The Leys in Witney reopened in March following a £150,000 upgrade.

It has been deemed "hugely successful", becoming a destination park and attracting both locals and skateboarders from surrounding areas.

More than 100 young people attended the ribbon-cutting for the facility, which can also be used for BMXs, scooters and rollerblades, and immediately started using it.

Now Witney Town Council is holding a competition in conjunction with Mad Eclectic Styles (MES) Creations, a collective of graffiti writers, artists, designers and musicians, to turn the park’s vertical surfaces into canvases.

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Specially invited artists, a mix of local artists with others that are known nationally and internationally for their work, will tackle the transformation.

The brief is colour, inclusivity, youth, environment and Witney (Image: Witney Town Council)

The brief will focus on colour, inclusivity, youth, environment and Witney.

Artists have complete freedom to express the themes however they want.

Future plans for the park could involve a secondary function as an exhibition space that showcases how street art can instantly change ordinary spaces into extraordinary places and celebrates this art form at its best, the council said.

In future there may be opportunities for local artists and young people to create regular refreshes of some of the art.

The competition takes place on Saturday, October 5 between 9am and 5pm.

The Wheeled sports park will be closed for its usual skate and ride activities during this time, but there will be music to entertain visitors and refreshments available from the Coffee Shed.

Everyone is welcome to come along and enjoy watching these talented public artists get creative.

The park was upgraded through a grant of £57,975 from the FCC Communities Foundation and a £100,000 contribution from the town council.

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Ruth Smith, leader of the town council, said: "This project benefited from community input into the design and sustainably kept existing concrete and features.

"It will bring pleasure and skill to many and will bring people into Witney."

Penny Horne, FCC Communities Foundation grant manager, added: "It was wonderful to see something we have funded finally open and ready to make such a difference to the lives of so many people across Witney.

"FCC Communities Foundation is always happy to consider grant applications for projects that benefit local communities, and this is a great example of what can be achieved."